Tonino Benacquista

Tonino Benacquista, March 2008

Tonino Benacquista (born September 1, 1961 in Choisy-le-Roi , France ) is a French writer and screenwriter .

Tonino Benacquista is the son of Italian emigrants. He first began studying film, which he then dropped out to earn a living doing odd jobs. Since 1985 he has mainly written detective novels. For his novel Itakerblues he received the renowned Grand prix de littérature policière and the Prix ​​Mystère de la critique in 1992 .

Since 1994 he has also worked as a screenwriter. In 2001 Benacquista wrote the screenplay for his film Lip Service together with director Jacques Audiard . Here Vincent Cassel plays the newly released thief Paul who enters into a liaison with a hearing-impaired secretary (played by Emmanuelle Devos ) and cheats on a group of criminals. For the thriller, Benacquista, together with Audiard, was awarded the César , the most important French film prize, and was nominated for the European Film Prize. In 2005 and 2006, the writer worked again with Audiard on the latter's thrillers The Wilde Beat of My Heart and Les Disparus .

As a comic author, he published the album L'Outremangeur together with the illustrator Jacques Ferrandez in 1998 , for which he received the Prix René Goscinny at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême the following year . Together with Daniel Pennac , he wrote scenarios for two Lucky Luke albums from 2010 , which were drawn by Achdé .

Works

• La commedia of the council. Gallimard, Paris 1991, ISBN 2070406466 .
  • Itakerblues , Roman, Rotbuch, Hamburg 1991.
• Liegewagenango , Roman (1997), ISBN 3880223874
• The soap opera quartet , Roman (1998), ISBN 3785715005
• Die Absacker , Roman (2000), ISBN 3442541158
• The Melancholy of Men , Roman (2003), ISBN 3832178287
• Three red squares on a black background ( Trois carrés rouges sur fond noir ), Dt. v. Stefan Linster, Heilbronn (Distel Literaturverlag) 2003, ISBN 3-923208-69-3
• Malavita - A Mafia Comedy , Roman, Carl's Books, Munich 2013, ISBN 357058528X .
• Blood and Dollars - A Mafia Comedy , Novel (2015), ISBN 9783570585412

Scripts (selection)

• 1999: La débandade
• 2001: lip service (Sur mes lèvres)
• 2005: The wild beat of my heart (De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté)
• 2005: La Boîte noire
• 2006: A Crime
• 2013: Malavita - The Family (The Family)

Web links

Commons : Tonino Benacquista  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Tonino Benacquista in the catalog of the German National Library
• Tonino Benacquista in the Internet Movie Database (English)